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Bushman
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The state of quantum flux
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Feb 12, 2019 - 04:17pm PT
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Mr. Gnome,
Please forgive me for making fun of you, I know it is wrong, sometimes I just have so damn much trouble understanding what you’re writing about that it frustrates me. I will either skip it and/or keep any negative comments to myself in the future.
Here is a sunrise as a kind of half assed amends, sort of...
And here’s a picture of me painting in my garage…the proper way, with plenty of cross ventilation, a powerful fan, and a respirator.
Just think of me as a powerful fan, with a respirator, and maybe not so powerful anymore.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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Feb 12, 2019 - 04:35pm PT
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As noy to boy as any of us be
you Bushman , brother of my hero
have sole permission to kick me.
Please always riff off whatever trash I say!
Don't stifle the gift
I never question the whys that be in this universe
It is that sort of faithlessness that makes the magic go away
in zBrowns countenance, his ear hears what i do
your host here posts pictures that if I could I would take
you just do you and all will be fine,
Clipper, In his great heart, Ignow he does not mean to, Clips my wings,
but does the foc?= Friendly old Canadian Jim?(he's a good meany,I do not tangle with)
his and mfm's loyalty to Dwain is redeemable
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 12, 2019 - 05:04pm PT
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No redemptions, only exemptions here.
Freedom is just another word except 'round here.
I'm letting go of any tack or bridles and just gonna slouch along on my painted pony and do my thing going my way that may or may not dovetail with others' ways or trails.
Knowing the journey is the reward (19,000 posts plus the other old thread) is half of fifty percent of the trip.
And it's a long, strange trip, and don't bother to ask aboot that other fifty percent because it's in Canada and I haven't a passport so I am not heading to Brennan's.
I've been to the REAL BRENNAN'S like a good Berkeleyan should on occasion.
I found that it closed in 2018. Poor doin's, y'ask me. Not that Irish coffee is all that, but the place was always hopping and North Facers met Sierra Designers and fist fights broke out over the most baffling subjects...but them days are long gone what with gentrification and so forth.
Throwpie could tellya.
This year, Brennan’s Restaurant in Berkeley celebrated its 60th anniversary. As the story goes, founder John Brennan, a Berkeley resident, built the original restaurant in 1958, five years after he retired from his job as a contractor. Even though he didn’t have prior restaurant experience, he knew what he liked to eat and decided that’s what he’d serve at the place he built. Brennan’s opened on Jan. 16, 1959, on John Brennan’s 69th birthday.
Brennan’s Restaurant
700 University Ave. (near Fourth St.), Berkeley
Brennan’s has been family-owned for three generations. In 2008, it moved from its original location to a Mission-style building next door at 700 University Ave. The historic Southern Pacific Railroad building is a city of Berkeley landmark that was constructed in 1913.
Although it’s steps away from the posh Fourth Street shopping district, Brennan’s has maintained its reputation as a reliable, no-frills watering hole and hofbrau, a place to get a beer or an Irish coffee, watch a game and get a hearty, hot plate of food after a hard day’s work.
But those days will soon be over, as Brennan’s will be closing on Sept. 15, 2018. 😥
I never went into Brennan's after 1984, back when they were located under the University Avenue overpass on the road to Bumfuk, Egypt.
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 12, 2019 - 05:24pm PT
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First time I've seen bushman spraying about anything.
He's Oso Modesto.
Mosesto? As in elms?Went out for a short walk that took a long time. Lunch at Joe On the Go and a tour of part of "historic Ragsdale."
I went into a gift shop near Joe's, Christina's Gifts, after seeing a pendant in their window like I'd wanted to find for Laurie for Valentine's Day, but couldn't really afford.
[Sorry, happiegrrrl2, but my budget, y'know. Your stuff's incredible for the scenes, but that's why they're so much, plus the wrapped wire, etc.]
So I walk in and bother the lady selling another lady some lady's stuff to show me the pendant in the window and she tells me she'll be right with me, does the business part and the brief chat, and then turns her attention to me.
Long story short, she is one of the oldest friends of my family. We met in 1961 as we kids all went to the same Catholic school. So it was lots of fun to see her after many years, but she was just gonna go to lunch, so I left and went on my walk.
The creek is only up a foot since yesterday. It must be that the engineers are letting out water in anticipation of more rain, I dunno.
But the water color and clarity wasn't as good as yesterday.
I still have to clean off my approach shoes from last week when I got them all gumboed up from the side of the road taking pics with Vern.
She was a very tough grader and had a thing about French poets. And Dylan.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Feb 12, 2019 - 06:18pm PT
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I think that last time I was at Brennan's would have been in 1967.
I thought it closed once Bruce Lee (no relation to Carlos' TA Rosemary) and I stopped going there.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 12, 2019 - 06:46pm PT
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But beavers won't touch this. It's art. Crafted by artists who may call themselves artistes. Wielding dangerous chainsaws for profit. Chewing up the environment for a whimsical thing that might do just as well lighting the Meatfest campfire.
[Wild hair, there. Sorry. I just ate a Dove Bar chocolate heart, solid chocolate. Doc told me to watch the sweets, too. Hi ho.]
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 12, 2019 - 07:44pm PT
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The Golfer's Psalm.Most often heard in the locker room and on the 19th green.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 12, 2019 - 08:08pm PT
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For good minestrone you need lots of minestrone.
In a large frying pan, brown half pound of beef in 2 tbsp. olive oil.
Add 6 cups water, 1 can (1 lb. 13 oz.) tomatoes, broken up, 1/2 c. chopped onion, 1 clove minced garlic, and 2 beef bouillon cubes; bring liquid to boil.
Add 1 can (16 oz.) kidney beans, drained & rinsed; add 2 c. diced zucchini, 1 c. celery, 2 tbsp. chopped fresh parsley, 2 tsp. oregano, 1 tsp. salt, 1/4 tsp. pepper, crushed.
Bring to a boil again. Slowly add 2 c. rigatoni pasta.
Bring to boil again and turn to simmer.
Simmer 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
TASTE IT, FER GOSH SAKES!
Amend if necessary, then ladle into bowls, garnish generously with LOTS of Parmesan cheese.
Makes approximately 10 cups.
Use your own judgment on amount of salt; I like less.
Serve with slices of toasted sourdough garlic bread.
And yes, I've made it before. I love this stuff.
Best bowl in town is at Destino's on West Main Street, where it is still beginning in this "City on the Rise," as our mayor calls it.
And here I thought we were on Bear Creek, which is really Russian, but the strognoff recipe will have to come from Laurie, who promised she'd make some for us.
Chow, chilluns.[Click to View YouTube Video][Click to View YouTube Video]
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Feb 12, 2019 - 08:28pm PT
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Thanks minestrone_de_merced
Mine is strone
How is y'allZ
Don't tell me
It's alright ma
May grab this one tomorrow
The Music Never Stopped
KGO TV (San Francisco)
11-87
Host: Don Sanchez
Narration: Michael Vosse
Another video from the Graceful Duck Archive.
Cable > SuperBeta HiFi > Playback Sony EDV-9500 >
Standalone Panasonic DMR-E50 (XP) > TMPGenc DVD Author 3
No Artwork
Chapters: 4
NTSC / Stereo
TRT: 21:37
Audio codec: AC3
Audio bitrate: 256 kb/s
Video codec: MPEG2
Video bitrate: 8993 kb/s
Picture Resolution: 704x480
A look at music in the sixties, by many of those who were
part of it. Michael Vosse, a producer for KGO TV News in
the 1980s was on the front lines then with a Super-8 movie
camera furnished to him by Herb Alpert. His home movies
are stunning - The San Francisco scene, rare footage of
legend Graham Parsons, The Rolling Stones and never before
seen film from The Big Sur Folk Festivals at Eselen Institute.
His personal narration, sprinkled with interview segments
by some very influential music icons make for a riveting
video experience. This aired locally in the San Francisco
Bay area only once that I know of.
Appearances by:
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 12, 2019 - 08:44pm PT
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S Ellen. Love dat place.
The Esselen People
Inside a cave in a narrow canyon near Tassajara
The vault of rock is painted with hands,
A multitude of hands in the twilight, a cloud of men’s palms, no more,
No other picture. There’s no one to say
Whether the brown shy quiet people who are dead intended
Religion or magic, or made their tracings
In the idleness of art; but over the division of years these careful
Signs-manual are now like a sealed message
Saying: "Look: we also were human; we had hands, not paws. All hail
You people with cleverer hands, our supplanters
In the beautiful country: enjoy her a season, her beauty, and come down
And be supplanted; for you also are human."
--Robinson Jeffers
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 12, 2019 - 08:48pm PT
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Otay. How many fingers?
Try doing this with feet.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 12, 2019 - 09:33pm PT
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Mescaline Tales of the Big Sur.
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Jim Clipper
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Feb 12, 2019 - 09:38pm PT
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Mescaline at essalen, you really are an incorrigible hippie. I mean that in the best (I'm jealous), kind of way.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Feb 12, 2019 - 10:44pm PT
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All that Jazz
https://daily.jstor.org/when-jazz-was-a-public-health-crisis/
In the 1920s, jazz music was thought to cause physical illness or even disability.
All this external stimulation was thought to cause neurasthenia, a neurological condition that caused headaches, agitation, and depression. Extreme cases could manifest physically: doctors described jazz enthusiasts that were “nervous and fidgety,” with “perpetually jerking jaws.” Milwaukee’s public health commissioner claimed that the music damaged the nervous system, and a Ladies’ Home Journal article reported that it caused brain cells to atrophy. In Cincinnati, a maternity hospital successfully petitioned to have a nearby jazz club shut down, arguing that exposing newborns to the offending music would have the effect of “imperiling the happiness of future generations.”
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Feb 13, 2019 - 04:15am PT
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I’ve seen enough of Mordor
though the forecasts are often wrong
we trust our meteorologists
and we tune into the weather
like the simple folk of medieval times
who listened to the soothsayer
and we follow all the journalists
but focus on the pundits
who have no clue who will win this time
as our chosen ones are bared naked
then we curse them like a sailor
we believe in modern clairvoyants
and we practice wishful thinking
though we’re all like royal watchers
where predestined lines of succession
don’t account for life’s anomalies
I’ve seen enough of Mordor
to place my trust in experts
I’ll take science on the whole
but accounting for a million years
of our incessant fallibility
I’ve seen enough of Mordor
to trust nothing or no one
to steer us clear succeed or fail
when we’re surrounded by those icebergs
then I’d rather be the one at the helm
-mr fallible
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 13, 2019 - 04:42am PT
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Gentle Jim Clipper,
I take your comment on my hippiedom in the spirit in which it was offered.
Vaya con Viacom, senor.
https://twitter.com/Viacom?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
--mfm
Brother hooblie of the Rimrock is still occupado, as is readily apparent to the followers of this thread.
Our bear-like brother's camera work and occasional humorous and instructive anecdotes are well-appreciated and an example for all didacts, everywhere.
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
Jan 30, 2019 - 08:07am PT
dear flamers,
signing off for a bit. no worries, you're all the shiny objects you were meant to be.
just boxing up the coax and dish to be replanted in a few weeks ...
so don't release the hounds or nuthin
Herewith, Hoobly Woobly, a Valentine Andecdote. Or a warning against drug abuse, as some might see it.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
I admit that the production values are slightly less than those of Free Solo, but hey, I've seen worse cameo performances than that of the mysterious chick from the bar.
Here is Mickey Schaffer's recent Youtube Gem, while we are on that topic.
Done In R1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kni-AVRYwA8
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 13, 2019 - 05:32am PT
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You don't need a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows.
You need "Bob the Turkey."
Most weathermen have been called a turkey a time or two, I betcha.
We have one sitting on the porch rail but the wind meter needs a new battery, I think.
More rain this early morning.
Bears Do It
The offshore is now onshore and it's cold on the porch
but not too cold to enjoy the breeze, light the torch.
It's still dark outside but the day has begun
It's just that it's nice when we have some sun.
It's discontenting winter as Shakespeare once said,
But really, I think that it was all in his head.
It's not that hard to just hibernate some
And emerge all refreshed when the Springtime has come.
Let's Fall In Love (including the Finns)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eraOhezY23s
Do sponges use one?
bushman, you've got the helm. Have a great American day. I'm gonna go below and snooze a bit.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 13, 2019 - 05:55am PT
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No more sleep for me...too much Maj. Dickason's blend (half-decaf, too!), and too much going on in my head as a result.
This is the result of trying to get back under the covers.
It kinda just sat there like a turd that wasn't ready to see the light of day, but here it is.
They Felt Like Dancin', Yeah
Vance and Lance both liked to dance.
They had an audition, a really big chance,
For fame and for fortune, maybe even romance.
So they practiced all day and did calisthenics at night,
Which made them both vigorous, graceful and light.
But the facts were they were White and couldn't keep time
So their hopes were all dashed and they never made a dime.
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